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Forty-eight of Em. BRYAN’S CHOICE FOR 1904. | Sunstrokes in New York; } Work of the Ex-Confederates. f~ Ten Feet of Snow in Montana | New Orleans, May 20.—At to-day’s session of the ex-Confederate reunion New York, May 20.—Allhot weath-| General C. I. Walker of Virginia, ON FARM LOANS er records for New York were broken | moved that a committee of five be : this afternoon when the thermome- | appointed to arrange for a closer re- ter registered 90 degrees at 3:20. | Jationship between the sons of veter- The nearest approach to this since/ang and the parent organization. the records have been kept by the| General Gordon appointed General weather bnreau was in 1377, when|¢. 1, Walker, General B. H. Young, the reading showed 86 degrees. In| General Robert White, General J. A. 1898 the thermometer registered 72] Webb and General W. P. Tarry. degrees on May 20. The Sons of Veterans met again Two school children, a boy and a/ to-day and listened to the reports of girl, died to-day on the streets of the various committees. To-night a Brooklyn from the terrible hent, in| pall was given under their auspices spite of all that could be done for] to the sponsors and maids of honor. them by medical aid. ‘To-morrow’s session of the veterans’ Five cases of sunstroke were re-| organization will be largely taken ported to day in New York City and | up by the reports of the co.mittees more are looked for to-night. If the| on credentials and resolutions. Gen- present heat continues for three or|eral Joseph Wheeler arrived to-day to four days it is predicted that sun-|take part in the reunion and will re- strokes will be almost as numerous] main until it is ended. a3 on a July day, asby that time the _ heat will have weakened those who are exposed so they will be unable to endure it. In all likelihood the Republican at- | tempt will be to bridge ever another | judge Walter Clark of North Carolina election with “Prosperity.” Assum- ing that Wall street’s periodical squalls develop no real tempests and that no other disorders plunge the country into panic in the interim, we shall have again to face the fulse conclusion that adapts iteelf to any premise. Pointing tothethings that are, the politicians will extol thesup- posed bountiful virtues of Republi- eanism. Already theadvanceagents are preparing the way. The prosperity promoters play up- on superstition and fear. They seek to hold us in awe of some deeply mysterious alliance between prosper- ity and the Dingley tariff. We are solemnly warned that, if the Dingley schedule is even so much as touched | Cleveland were next suggested. None =presto: away will vanish prosper-| of these met with the approval ofthe ity. ‘There must be no tarifftinker-| Nebraskan, He spent several min- ing.” It is as if some magic spell] utes in delivering an attack on Mr. had been cast over the tariff long/Cleveland. Asa last resort Senator ages ago, which it would be sacrilege | Blackburn asked if Mr. Olney would to break; or, rd if the Dingley bill/do, Mr. Bryan disapproved. wereas old agyfgypt and hadalways| “I am at the end of my rope then,” enjoyed som sort of sacred immuni-| said Senator Blackburn. “Now give us a name,” Suggested. New York, May 20 —The New York Herald prints to-day the following from its Washington bureau: Demo- crata here are puzzling over the lat est candidate of W. J. Bryan for the Presidency. When Mr. Bryan was here last month, he summoned Sena- tor Blackburn of Kentucky to his hotel. “Who do you think would make the best candidate for the Presi- dency?” asked Mr. Bryan. “What do you think of Judge Parker?” parried the Kentuckian. “Won't do,” replied Mr. Bryan. Mr. Gorman, Mr. Hill and Mr. BUTLER, MO. offer inducements in the matter of long time, easy payments, liberal terms and fair treatment. WE WANT TO Clover Seed, Rape Seed, Millet and Kaftir Corn. A Cloudburst at Maryville. Marysville, Kan., May 20.—There was a cloudburst over Marysville to- night at about 9 o'clock and the streets are likeso many rivers. Water is running down Broadway about 4 feet deep. The floors of all the busi- ness houses along Broadway are Butte, Mont., May 20.—Ten fect of snow is reported from Boutts, Mont., to-day, and the thermometeris rang- ing from 4 to 6 degrees below zero. Traffic on the Great Northern is ve well now and then totell NAMED A MAN UNKNOWN, ch about the tariff. As a “Well,” re, Mr. B: » “th of fact, the Dingley billisa Well,” replied Mr. Bryan, “there Wheat, Corn, eee i ; . |are several good men, but I have] *T8 ¥ , submerged and cellarsare filling rap-| § impertinent and gee looked over the field, and in my opin- | Seriously interfered with by the drift-| idly with water. The loss will be} I T obstruction, recently _— 'y tis ion Judge Walter Clark of North|ing snow, and the trains are bring !ieavy, Immediately atter the cloud- Oats and Flax. friends of monopoly. By actual) oa .ojina isthe man who stands for| Perated only under the greatest dif-| burst the water from the hill rushed| 9 eount, according to an official list prepared by the joint Congressional ficulty. Conservative estimates to-night place the loss of stock at about $2,- 000,000, and the number of head of stock is figured at about 90,000. This loss will be swelled by the ruin of the fruit crop throughout North- ern Montana, which, itis understood, is a total failure. the principles of true Democracy, down to the lower sections and the \ 4 and he is the man we ought to run.” Committee of 188, there have been “Who is Clark?” Mr, Blackburn just forty-eight of such obst ructions wie tensed ts aii raised ay Se Regn byen oop es oes Bryan told him that his candidate half of privileged interests during the : short space of forty years, an aver- age of more than one a year—which 4 shows that even to the Republican ance of a large river. Dry goods boxes and outbuildings were washed and in many instances were carried to the Blue river. Anelectric storm preceded the cloudburst. Merchants were outin rubber boots was chief justice of North Carolina and avery able man. A search re- vealed that Judge Clark has views that coincide with those of Mr. Bryan AMORET, MO. DUVALL & PERCIVAL, Reclean Flax Seed for Seeding. whole bottom presented the appear-| § Always doing business 312 days in a year. down the street for a long distance| % WILL C, REED, OP PPA PP | ing eo very sacred The storm was followed by frost of on most of the things in the Chicago trying to save their goods. No lives | about tariffs, and demonstrates the and Kansas City platforms, and that the most damaging kind, and all] were lost. insincerity of the warning, “Beware he visited Mexico several years ago|Satden stuffs have felt its effect. The se el, how you touch the Dingley bill!”—| ond wrote at length on the beauties | Missouri river is rising rapidly and Murder Near Warrensburg, i Repubiic, of the silver basis as it operated in| the ranchers are leaving the low re Te . 20 me 2 aliale Mexico, Senator Simmons of North Caro- United States, lina was in Washington to-day and Washington, May 21,.—The Im-|¥@8 asked if the state would approve migration Bureau of the Treasury | MT. Bryan's choice and support | Department has announced that the|J¥dgeClark in the next national con- Kinyon, a 17-year-old negro girl liv ing with her widowed mother, sister and brother-in-law, seventeen miles northwest of Warrensburg, wasfound murdered in a brush heap a few hun- dred yards from her home yesterday with her throat cut. Evidence pointed toward the guilt of Henry McKeeley the girl’s brother in-law, and the whole population of northern Johnson county is search- ingftor him. The girl was left by her mother and sister Tuesday morning in charge of the house while they, with McKeeley, went to the home of C. W. Butcher, a farmer in that neighborhood, to work. McKeeley made an excuse to return home and this was the last seen of him. Swarms of Aliens Coming Into the floods. No trace can be found of the three sheep herders first reported missing, and it is thought their bodies lie deep beneath the snow. SAM WALLS. Opposite Court House. official figures of the immigration to| Yeation. : the United States during ee month| “Ot coure, it would,” replied Sena of April were 126,286, the largest | t0T Simmons. ‘ aumber of aliens who ever came to| ‘And it would also support Gov- this country in any month. ernor Aycock for Vice-President. We For the last ten months of the| Wil! have no trouble in supplying the present fiscal year the totalimmigra- whole ticket from the tar heel state.” tion has been 620,711, larger than MR. BRYAN CONFIRMS IT, for the same period in the history of} Lincoln, Neb., May 20.—W. J. the country. Bryan was asked last night if he had The total immigration in the] told Senator Blackburn in Washing- twelve months of the last fiscal year|ton that Judge Walter Clark of was 648,743. It is thought to be} North Carolina would be a goodman eertain that the immigration for the|for President and if he would stand month of May will exceed 130,000, | by the assertion. and for the month of June will bein] “If Senator Blackburn said 60 it the neighborhood of 100,000. This| must be so,” said Mr. Bayan, smil- will give a total immigration forthis|ingly. Then he added: fiscal year of between 850,000 and] “In discussing Judge Clark with 900,000 persons, as many people as| Senator Blackburn and others, ithas are found ins number of the oldest] only been as one of many available and most populous States of the|candidates. The Commoner hassug- country. gested the name of Judge Clark The year 1882 was the banner] among the available candidates.” Guards and Memorial Day. Jefferson City, Mo., May 22.—Adju- tant-General Dameron to day issued the following circular to the Nation- al Guard of Missouri regarding the observance of Memorial Day: “Saturday, May 30, is Memorial Day. It isa day that should beheld sacred by every National Guards- man of Missouri. The custom of decorating the graves and honoring the memories of the brave and faith- ful who have fallen in the line of duty in the defense of their country and home, is a beautiful one, and is fraught with national significance, and one every citizen soldier of Mis souri should feel it a duty to perpet- uate by precept and example. “Every company should give their united support to any arrangements at their home station for the public observance of this day, and to parti- YOU SHOULD This Boy is Electricity Proof. Salt Lake City, May 20.—Arthur Robertson, 16 years of age, lives after having received a current of 16,000 volts of electricity through his body. He, in company with some other boys, was on the roof of a power plant on the West side and attempt- ed to crawl under a live wire. When Robertson arose the wire rested practically certain that this fiscal] was brought to an end to-day and year will establish a new record. the delegates adjourned sine die at The arrivals at the principal ports}noon. General Gordon was fe elect- for April were as follows: New York, }ed commander-in-chief and all thede- 101,572; Boston, 9,785; Philadel-| partment commanders, General Lee, phia, 5,443: Baltimore, 6,973; San}General Walker and General Cabell Francisco, 824; Key West, 403. were reelected. All the elections The arrivals by way of the Cana-| were unanimous. dian border for the month have not} The place of holding the next re- been sent in by the border immigra-| union was left to the executive com- tion officials. mittee. It will be held in Louisville, Nashville or St. Louis. It is the de- sire of the officials of the organiza- tion to arrange matters so thata single railroad rate will allow the delegates to attend the reunion and visit the World’s Fair at St. Louis, either going or coming. were blistered and blackened by the terrific force of the current, but phy- sicians say he will recover. and practicable. “National flags will be displayed on all armories at half staff from sunrise to midday, at which time the flags will be hoisted to top of stuff and remain until sunset.” market price for your Cassini’s Life Threatened. Washington, May 20.—Detectives are guarding the Kussian embassy in Rhode Island avenue. Since the Kish- ineff massacre Count Cassini has been in receipt of so many threatening leters that he decided to call the at- tention of the state department to them. Secretary Hay lost no time in ask- ing the secret service to do all in ite power to protect the Russian am- bassador from personal injury. Sec- retary Hay realizes thatshould harm come to the ambassador at this time it might prove a very serious inter- national matter. Chambermaid Robbed By Negroes. Indianapolis, May 22.—Lulu Spencer Hadley, the chambermaid, who refused to make Booker Wash- ington’s bed, was chloroformed and robbed at her home, 630 Fulton St., this morning. Mr. and Mrs. Smith, with whom Miss Hadley lives, were also chloroformed. The robbers who are believed to be some ugly looking negroes who have ‘been hanging around and peering in- to the house for several days, secur- ed Miss Hadley’s purse containing $43. The house was ransacked, bureau drawers were thrown on the floor and every effort was made by the robbers to find the money which Miss Hadley has been receiving for several days from all parts of the country. Investigation showed that the once. Any part of the county. Powers to Have a New Judge. Frankfort, Ky., May 22,—Thecourt ofappeals this morning sustained the motion made by commonwealth attorney Franklin that circuit judge Cantrill vacate the bench in the trial of the case of the commonwealth against Caleb Powers, charged with being an accessory to the murder of William Goebel. Governor Beckham is expected to appoint a special trial judge. LLLL LLL LLL LLL LLL LAL LE LL PPP PPP LS Vest Starts To-morrow. Washington, May 20.—Senator Vest will depart for Sweet Springs Friday morning. He will go by way of New York, so as to take the Niagara Falls route. He will be ac- companied to New York by his for- mer secretary, Mr. Guenssler, and to St Louis by his daughter, Mrs. Jack- son, and his granddaughter, Miss Sallie Jackson. Bozeman, Mont., May 22.—One section of Montana is eaten up by locusts, while another is under three feet of snow. Prof. A. C. Collier of}: the agricultural college, has received word that a district 40 miles square, situated east of Forsythe, is pester- ed by the Rocky Mountain grass- Bat a eee ee BUTLER, MO. Capital, = = $50,000. White Pig Instead of Poodle. Monroe City, Mo., May 20.—Miss Edna, daughter of E. 8. Baulware, has relegated poodles and pugs to ton to Sweet Springs. Mrs, Vest has been in St. Louis for]! for them to feed on. silken cord. When they make their appearance] 5m days and will join her husband po seaplane pe sin areas then Mr, Baulware is a big stock raiser, on mond, bh egemepion eyeing having a 1,200-acre farm, but his Oguen of Nevada, Mo., and three Paris, in Oi Bie Be Bin Be Bi OS BS Be Oe Oe BA BH Be Oh Be Be BX Br 074 | West Side Square, BUTLER, MO. O°5B 2B 258 5B OIE OTE OE Bix OB OIE OG Or OR CSE CR rR Or Rory erg org Org Boreng Cry - I SALLLLRESSSELOLSSLELLE LAER HAVE ONE. When not in reach of a station. + Aland Separator i year in the history of the United Blection of Coufedecates, cipate in a body in public ceremonies squarely across his neck. fe _ States. Since then immigration has| ; incompliance ote i request toas- He was knocked headlong and was = FOR THE FARMER 4 dwindled. In that year 788,992 per , New aan ga ra actual sist in carrying out the exercises ar- unconscious for about half an hour. See us. We will buy your sonscaine t is country. Itisnow| business of the Confederate reunion Deas His bh: b : ' y ranged for the day, whenever proper ands, arme, breast and back cream, Will pay the highest Poultry and Eops HIDES, WOOL and JUNK of all kinds, We want 8 or 10 milk haulers at CARPENTER & SHAFER MG.CO. 3 Bint mh ew od tne cape es County Investment Co, Money to loan on real at low rates, Al title to all lands and town lot fa Bates county, Ones f Adolphus Busch has placed his pri- . the past and set a new fad. ¢ the disposal of Mr. Vest,| Bouse has been rummaged. The|hopper, which has eaten up every She has a pretty white pig, weigh- a poe = naive Touniey oan robbers had visited all the rooms, | thing. bidet) Hou. J.B. Nawanzy, 7.9 uum ing about ten pounds, that she has] .4 will go through trom Washing- had torn up carpets in one roomand| Cattle have to be removedfromthe| § Ind, C. Haas, Abstractor. _ 8... 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